Daoma Winston Books in Order

A woman’s troubled relationship with the brutal Stell draws suspicion from those who cannot understand why she remains. When he discovers her with his brother Mike, concealed motives emerge and transform an already abusive triangle into something more complicated.

Ellen is carried into an isolated valley and held captive by people driven by fanatical desires. Trapped among those determined to control her, she faces a struggle for freedom in Winston’s early novel of obsession and abuse.

Romance novelist Gay Bracken attracts Hollywood interest while pursuing a love life more adventurous than her fiction. Drawn to a young violinist and a glamorous starlet, she risks increasingly serious consequences in her search for lasting satisfaction.

Actress Robin Venner agrees to a fraudulent marriage so Jamie Cromwell can claim a fortune. Arriving at his isolated mountain home, she encounters unsettling relatives and an atmosphere of menace that makes maintaining her deception increasingly frightening.

Nineteen-year-old bride Dana joins her husband on his isolated island, where disturbing incidents suggest someone wants her gone. Torn between protecting her marriage and escaping a growing threat, she struggles to identify the hostility within his family home.

Ninety-two-year-old Mr. Crown has watched Wakefield change from a village into a suburb, but now senses something more sinister spreading through his street. Believing a neighbor embodies that evil, he feels compelled to act before time runs out.

Mari enters marriage under the shadow of an old household curse, where a candle associated with a long-dead lover now illuminates a corpse. As Leigh’s second wife, she confronts a legacy of fear that appears to threaten her own life.

A battered woman found near a desert road cannot establish which of her many identities is real. Publicity brings former lovers back into her life, each hoping to reclaim her, while she struggles with questions whose answers she fears discovering.

Paget Browne visits isolated Devil Dunes seeking explanations for her fiancé’s erratic behavior. Strange accidents, a hidden room and the presence of an unknown woman turn her investigation into a struggle to determine whom she can trust before the danger becomes fatal.

Heiress Jan Olney arrives at Ballantine Lodge despite warnings to leave, determined to comfort Ellen. Learning about a family curse and the house’s concealed history draws her into a dangerous mystery whose secrets may prevent her from departing safely.

Marion Mayfield returns to the home where she grew up and receives an unsettling anonymous note. Its cryptic warning turns a familiar place into a source of uncertainty, leaving her to confront the possibility that danger awaits her homecoming.

Nan Sue returns to an old manor to learn why her sister stopped writing, only to discover Joanne is dead. Letters, troubling memories and a mysterious stranger suggest the threat that claimed her sister may now be directed toward her.

New bride Marilee arrives at Dennison Hill to find her husband suddenly distant and his aunts questioning her sanity. Strange voices and threatening incidents leave her unsure whether the household's danger comes from living relatives or the dead.

Sharon returns to the mountain village of her childhood, leaving a would-be husband behind. Mysterious deaths, fearful residents, and a fortune-teller unwilling to reveal her predictions surround her homecoming, while strange visitors begin appearing outside her door.

After her mother’s death, Felicia returns to David Hall seeking explanations for years of isolation and separation. An unexpected romantic connection complicates her investigation as family mysteries draw her into a conflict where discovering the truth could prove deadly.

Visiting Rentlow Retreat, Teena reluctantly agrees to pose for a sculptor rumored to be a vampire. Growing weakness, strange marks on her neck, and an engagement she never chose leave her questioning his power over her.

Eola returns to the strange family mansion after an urgent appeal from her sister Dolly. When Dolly dies, Eola finds herself isolated in Kingdom’s Castle, where the unanswered plea and atmosphere of danger leave her fearing for herself.

Jennifer Alton joins an experimental psychology class exploring a collective mind, expecting an unusual academic experience. Instead, the students unleash an invisible, insatiable creature, turning their experiment into a struggle with consequences far beyond the classroom.

Mary Ellen inherits a fortune and an isolated coastal house alongside six unfamiliar relatives. Their decision to restore the property brings bizarre incidents and mysterious deaths, making her question what else has passed to them with the inheritance.

Answering her twin sister’s urgent plea, Cecily travels to Florida and assumes her identity on Skeleton Key. A rumored curse, conflicting romantic attachments and a murder transform the deception into a dangerous trap as she realizes she may be the next intended victim.

Gaby Tysson falls for Benjamin Haley, then learns he is a distant cousin and former childhood companion. Returning with him to Cornell House revives memories of terrible deaths and exposes her to fresh dangers tied to its past.

Governess Cordelia Davis marries Jonathan Moorhaven and becomes part of the household she once served. Her new position brings her into direct conflict with the curse surrounding his home, threatening the security she might have expected marriage to provide.

Working as a companion to Mrs. Walker, Gilly encounters deaths that disturbingly resemble injuries inflicted on lifelike dolls. The apparent connection forces her to question her employer’s activities and the nature of a threat that reaches beyond ordinary explanation.

Raised in an isolated cottage, Robin welcomes the father who arrives after twenty years to take her home. At his hacienda, initial warmth gives way to secrecy, hostility, and another death, leaving her uncertain about her newly discovered family.

Miranda Jervis leaves her mother’s shabby boarding house to pursue a share of the Haversham fortune. Entering the wealthy family exposes corruption, violence and instability beneath its impressive surface, drawing her into one of the most turbulent periods of its history.

Anitra Martinez marries American Leigh Ransome to escape her father's brutality, unaware that her inheritance serves his ambitions. As his plans threaten her family and community, she must weigh love against loyalty to the land and people he seeks to control.

Marietta Garvey marries Lafe Flynn to retain her beloved tobacco plantation before the Civil War. Discovering his involvement in the Underground Railroad challenges her loyalties as love and the approaching conflict threaten the world she wants to preserve.

Arriving as a young bride, Nealanna joins the Kennelly family at their imposing New England home. Across three generations, passionate relationships and bitter feuds unfold under a legacy of supposed curses, sudden deaths, and recurring threats to the household.

Widowed Loria Baylor opens a millinery shop in her inherited Baltimore home and begins an affair with a married politician. Their relationship draws her into political ambitions and dangerous schemes by people determined to protect his rising career.

Bethany follows her husband Cummen into the wealthy Milleson family, whose floating mansion conceals bitter rivalries and secrets. His nearly identical twin exploits their resemblance, intensifying the deception and danger surrounding her unfamiliar new life.

Love and revenge unfold against the industrial landscape of New England around the turn of the twentieth century. Personal passions collide with the rigid demands and changing fortunes of a society shaped by its mills and competing ambitions.

A young man returns home ten years after the accident that killed the woman he loved. When a new romantic partner begins resembling his lost love, an apparent second chance becomes entangled with reincarnation and occult revenge.

Bored with her respectable Washington marriage, Mira becomes fascinated by a young drifter she meets in a bar. Their attraction draws her into increasingly dangerous transgressions, as obsession begins transforming her ordinary life into something far more disturbing.

Quinn’s lottery win brings anonymous congratulations that grow increasingly threatening as their sender approaches her New England town. Other winners find sudden wealth changing their lives, while Quinn faces a stalker apparently determined to make her fortune fatal.

A major passenger steamboat route brings change to Fall River, Massachusetts, altering the lives of people tied to the city. Spanning the line’s long history, the novel follows a community whose personal fortunes become connected with its evolving place in regional travel.

Successful soap-opera producer Sarah Morehouse receives an opportunity to move into prime-time television. Her professional ambitions become entangled with an attraction to the polished Tony Statler, whose presence threatens to undermine the career she has worked to build.

Claire Loving belongs to a family still haunted by the scandal that ended her grandfather's political career. As the country approaches war, suppressed tensions at Hannah's Gate deepen, transforming the household into a place where uncertainty and old grievances give way to danger and murder.

The family at Hannah's Gate remains caught in bitter conflict and unresolved hatred. Returning to the troubled household introduced in the earlier novel, this story follows another period of corrosive relationships within a house whose reputation for misfortune continues to shape its inhabitants' lives.

Nora Cleveland befriends an unhappy teenage waitress in a Hollywood diner in 1940. That encounter draws her into a life increasingly dominated by the young woman, who becomes celebrated actress Deedee Moran and develops a relationship with the American president.